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. 2020 May 5;18:120. doi: 10.1186/s12955-020-01352-w

Table 5.

Quality assessment of studies included in the quantitative synthesis (N = 10). These studies examined correlates of wellbeing or mental health among YPLHIV in SSA $

Author year Sampling (max score 4) Measurement (max score 8) Reporting (max score 8) Total score Quality
Generalisability Sample size Psychometric properties of scale Scale administration Description of analysis Reporting of regression analysis Adjustment of confounders Maximum score = 20
(Abebe et al., 2019) 1 2 1 3 1 3 1 12 Medium
(Dow et al., 2016) 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 8 Low
(Earnshaw et al., 2018) 1 1 0 1 2 3 1 9 Low
(Gaitho et al., 2018) 1 1 0 1 1 4 2 10 High
(Gentz et al., 2017) 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 7 Low
(Kim et al., 2015) 1 2 3 2 2 3 2 15 Medium
(Mbalinda et al., 2015) 1 2 2 1 1 3 2 12 Medium
(Mutumba et al., 2017) 1 2 2 2 1 3 1 12 Medium
(Okawa et al., 2018) 1 2 1 0 1 1 1 7 Low
(Woollett et al., 2017) 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 5 Low

$ = The quality assessment tool that was applied was adapted from the Cochrane guidance on assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies (Higgins and Green, 2011)